The history of specific sounds in electronic music

Unless I'm hallucinating, I seem to remember seeing or reading some Gabriel interview where he talked about drumming on glass bottles and playing it on the Fairlight. I'd assume that any weird sound on that album is some Fairlight folderol.

that preset sound, and it's accompanying sequence, is called "STEVE REICH IN THE 70s"

One sound i like to know the origin of is this

The FM rhodes + <insert> pad sound heard in mid-to-late 80's to mid-90's R&B ballads

Example

Sherrick-Just Call
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xfzp_sherrick-just-call_music

this thread rules, please keep it alive. (not like i know enough about old tech tech to contribute much. trevor horn to thread? max loderbauer to thread!)

this may be an obvious one, but can anyone tell me what synth mad mike used for his trademark string sound? like the one in "amazon"

Did the little 'laugh' sampled at the beginning of Yaz' 'Situation' appear first in that song or is it originally from somewhere else? I hear it all over the place in house music.

Okay, this is now driving me crazy! I'm almost certain that the laugh comes from some earlier tune, and that I've heard this tune, but I can't figure out what it is. Maybe some of you might know the answer, you can hear the laugh at 0:21 in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiMbg4yVWk

One sound i like to know the origin of is this

The FM rhodes + <insert> pad sound heard in mid-to-late 80's to mid-90's R&B ballads

Example

Sherrick-Just Call
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xfzp_sherrick-just-call_music

Very difficult, partly because of the quality of the clip. As you say, it sounds like a DX 'Rhodes' mixed with a synth string/pad. With the introduction of MIDI it became routine to mix sounds together (both being triggered off the same sequencer track), so the pad component of this could be off another DX (or from another part on the multitimbral TX816), OR from another MIDI-enabled synth of the period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bZ7zSvHEs

Did DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill bite his trademark squeal from this Divine Styler tune? And where did DS sample it from?

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/38924/Divine%20Styler-Ain't%20Sayin'%20Nothin'_Jr.%20Walker%20%26%20the%20All%20Stars-Shoot%20Your%20Shot/

Jr. Walker & the All Stars -

Shoot Your Shot (1965) was sampled in
Ain't Sayin' Nothin' by Divine Styler (1989)
Jump Around by House of Pain (1992)
Gimme a Break by Resin Dogs (2000)

Thanks! It's such a recognizable sound it made think Muggs got the idea to use it for that House of Pain tune from the Divine Styler song. But apparently the similar squeal in "Insane in the Brain" is not the same sample...? (I remember reading somewhere that the squeal in "Insane in the Brain" is a backward sample of a bagpipe, but that sounds like a rap urban legend.)

I hate to question the veracity of Milton Parker and "whosampled.com" and "my ears" but "Jump Around" squeal is Prince, dudes

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Prince:Gett+Off:13720:s1423231.10273324.4077037.0.2.34%2Cstd_5ca3551422bc44fc95ec7866f16706c4

I can't believe this mp3 even exists

http://www.divshare.com/download/launch/10517798-075

(hats off MeMyself&I)

the prince sample is at the same pitch, but if you knock down the jr. walker clip a half step it's definitely a more precise match

But apparently the similar squeal in "Insane in the Brain" is not the same sample...?

I thought Muggs was just surgically raiding second-long peaks from old R&B horn squeals but apparently "Insane in the Brain" is a horse!

url=http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/854/Cypress%20Hill-Insane%20in%20the%20Brain_Mel%20%26%20Tim-Good%20Guys%20Only%20Win%20in%20the%20Movies/

I want to believe! I fully trust everyone at WSW & wikipedia are dutifully inverting phase and summing to mono to check for cancellation every time they upload a discovery

maybe this would be a good thread for me to ask: anyone know the source of this fingersnap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqFNzRaOEvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urJ-WiHw1yk&

maybe this would be a good thread for me to ask: anyone know the source of this fingersnap?

I think that may be a gated Linn-9000 sidestick. I remember reading that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis came up with that sound on the Linn-9000 for Janet Jackson's "Funny how time flies". It sounds like it's gated through some kind of reverb with a long decay.

One sound i like to know the origin of is this

The FM rhodes + <insert> pad sound heard in mid-to-late 80's to mid-90's R&B ballads

Example

Sherrick-Just Call
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xfzp_sherrick-just-call_music

Very difficult, partly because of the quality of the clip. As you say, it sounds like a DX 'Rhodes' mixed with a synth string/pad. With the introduction of MIDI it became routine to mix sounds together (both being triggered off the same sequencer track), so the pad component of this could be off another DX (or from another part on the multitimbral TX816), OR from another MIDI-enabled synth of the period.

Someone has answered my thread from months ago...

by the time the DX7II came out, the DX-7 Rhodes +<Insert Pad> sound was standard presets on it. After 1986-87, you were hearing that combo on more songs which was at the same time the DX7II came out. Other digital synths did this as well.

Did the little 'laugh' sampled at the beginning of Yaz' 'Situation' appear first in that song or is it originally from somewhere else? I hear it all over the place in house music.

Okay, this is now driving me crazy! I'm almost certain that the laugh comes from some earlier tune, and that I've heard this tune, but I can't figure out what it is. Maybe some of you might know the answer, you can hear the laugh at 0:21 in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/wPiMbg4yVWk&fs=1&hl=en

― Tuomas, 12. heinäkuuta 2009 14:49 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Turns out the laughter indeed originated from the Yazoo song, the reason why I thought it sounded so familiar is because it's been sampled in so many tunes (including "Macarena").

Anyway, this question has been bugging me ever since it was posted in another thread:

Okay, theres this one sample of a crowd I can't quite describe, but it's pretty lo-fi, and is just kind of chattering and laughing. It's featured prominently in "Merrily We Roll Along" by Datach'i, and somewhere in "Maple Leafs" by Jens Lekman (I think it's that track), on the very end of "Return of The Gangster" by Outkast, and other places (I think I heard Belle and Sebastian used it too, but don't know).

Either way, what the hell is this sample that has been used so prominently, especially for something that's a just a field recording.

― mehlt, 23. marraskuuta 2007 5:05 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I listened to the Datach'i song, and I couldn't hear it there, maybe it was the wrong song? But you can definitely hear the same bit of crowd chatter on the Jens Lekman and Outkast tunes Mehlt mentions, and I think they both must sample some relatively well known record, otherwise it would be pretty odd for such an insignificant sample to appear in two very different songs. But I haven't figured out what the sample source is.

good idea for thread

This thread was originally inspired by people discussing the famous synth sound used in remixes on Robin S.'s "Show Me Love" and Nightcrawlers' "Push the Feeling On", so here's an example of the same Korg M1 preset sound used on a tune released in 1989:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOkcewbMWSk

You can also hear that sound, briefly, on the William Orbit & Mark Moore remix of Prince's "Batdance", also from 1989. Both of these are fairly obscure though, so I think it really is either the MK remix of "Push the Feeling On" or the Stonebridge remix of "Show Me Love" that popularized that sound... But both of those remixes are from 1992, and I can't find any info on which of them was released first. Does anyone know?